HERB - castile soap

[Gaylin Walli]

>     I spent the better part of 1998 researching "castile soap," aka olive oil
>soap.  I found both European recipes and was "brain picked" a doctoral
>candidate in anthropology who was studying the history of olives and their
>uses in the Middle East.  The process he told me about, which he himself
>witness, is (according to oral history) at least 2000 years old.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. The recipes then that you found were
orally passed down or they appeared in pre-1600 manuscripts?
It would intrigue me to know which manuscripts and how we could
all get ahold of them, if you'd be willing to share. :)

jasmine
iasmin de cordoba
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